Learning to learn

2:30 PM,
Mar. 15, 2013

Written by

Isabel W. Taylor
OPINION

Let me speak to a comment last week in the AC-T that preschool (child care) is primarily a "warehousing function, useful but not requiring the higher skill and cost of educators."

Knowledge of the new science of brain development guides professional early educators as they support age-appropriate learning in preschool classrooms. They do not assume to open up children's heads and pour in knowledge and facts but instead support children as they learn how to learn and develop a disposition to enjoy learning ("Brain Rules," Dr. John Medina).